The process of capitalist accumulation in certain sectors of the agrarian and food systems in southern China can continue thanks to the availability of migrant workers from neighboring countries like Myanmar.
The authors of this recently published article in Agriculture and Human Values, highlight the role of two land-related labour flows in the agrarian transformation in the southern China-Myanmar regions.
Co-authored by reasearchers working on the Commodity & land rushed and regimes research proect, the authors argue that various social classes and groups across China and Myanmar are tied to land, wage work and capital accumulation and, in turn, their productive and social reproductive tasks are directly and indirectly linked to one another.
Read this open access article - 'Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China', Yunan Xu, Chunyu Wang, Jingzhong Ye, Sai Sam Kham, Doi Ra, Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. Agriculture and Human Values, February 2025.
